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...Action Film as Star Autobiography. Cruise, some people think, is crazy. Yeah, like a fox. He has tended his fame long enough to know how to work it into this otherwise impersonal epic. Here Ethan is engaged (to Michelle Monaghan, who has strong Katie Holmes vibes) and takes his domestic life as passionately and seriously as his career. He has had a painful microbomb implanted in his brain?that explains a lot about the star?s shenanigans this past year. And at the end, his team jumps up and down in evocation of Cruise?s stunt on Oprah. Is celebrity...
...have brought a new vitality to sampling, but most of their work is produced and circulated below the radar of commercial music. An example of the second class, the wacky Australians in the Avalanches laboriously cleared the rights to all 900-odd samples they used in their epic album “Since I Left You,” which include language tapes, Madonna’s “Holiday,” and a vocal clip of a giddy Club Med DJ.On the commercial side, Puff Daddy (now Diddy, formerly known as P. Diddy, Puffy D, Puff...
...with sophomore Russell Young (3-2, 3.96) tomorrow in Game 1 and go with senior staff ace Josh Faiola (5-2, 1.90) in the nightcap. It will be the first appearance for Faiola, a former co-MVP of the prestigious Cape Cod League, since going 12 innings in an epic 2-1 loss to Yale on April 22. In that start, he threw 145 pitches.Haviland said the Crimson won’t expect Faiola to show signs of wear.“Sometimes you throw 145 and have no stress,” he said, “and sometimes...
...Wayfarer”—actually a common mistranslation of the German, it is really closer to “Songs of a Traveling Journeyman”—a tender and anguished piece, as well as Schubert’s masterful Octet, a truly epic work whose six movements are modeled after the classical Divertimento. During the compositional process, Schubert suffered from a severe, and eventually terminal, case of syphilis; shortly after the completion of the Octet he wrote to a friend: “Every night when I go to sleep I hope not to wake...
...former guitarist of Blink-182 has seen fit to grace the world with the band Angels and Airwaves, whose songs, according to him, have “the conceptual depth of Pink Floyd, [and] the anthemic architecture of U2…All the songs are very cinematic, anthemic and epic-sounding. The music sounds angelic. Every song gives you the chills and you feel like you want to cry but you’re conquering the world at the same time. It sounds like stadium rock done by a band that’s meant to be the absolute biggest...